Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  • Director: Don Siegel
  • Writer: Daniel Mainwaring,Jack Finney,Richard Collins
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 5, 1956
  • Also known as: Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Sam Peckinpah . It was released in the United States in 1956.
    This film can be said to be the originator of X-Files. It tells the story of aliens copying the residents of small towns and gradually controlling the whole city. Although this classic science fiction film is a low-cost B-level film, it hints at the herd mentality that McCarthyism was rampant in the United States at that time , and it has a warning effect. 

    Details

    • Release date February 5, 1956
    • Filming locations Town Square, Sierra Madre, California, USA
    • Production companies Allied Artists Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $417,000 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $1,861

    Movie reviews

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    • By Leo 2022-03-21 09:02:10

      If it is not qualified purely as a science fiction film, it is only because of the political metaphor

      From the perspective of pure science fiction, this film has the following bugs:

      1. The film does not explain how the body's body is perfectly disposed of after the magic flower occupied the body. 2. In the later stage of the film, as long as you fall asleep, you can change your mind in a dream. This is how the heroine is controlled. That is to say, there is no need for the magic flower to replace the main body, it is enough to replace the thoughts in the head. Then why does the magic...

    • By Emmie 2021-12-22 08:01:05

      Um

      Old movies with a high level of story integrity are pretty good ones among science fiction movies. The movie "Devil Flower" tells the fact that when the doctor Ben visited a friend, he discovered that the flower replaces human beings. A character is a typified character that fits the story, and there is nothing outstanding about it. The story itself is not long, it is very simple, and its advantages mainly lie in innovation and modernity. In the category of science fiction films, it is...

    • By Patricia 2021-12-22 08:01:05

      Pod Man

      This is a 1956 movie. At that time, China was not established until it was established. When it was poverty-stricken and weak, people were still thinking about how not to go hungry. But Biyang's America had already been filmed for politics. Zhi Yuyi’s movies have begun to explore some problems in thought; it should also be a satire of the current situation in the United States. A certain political party is shaped as a pod, and then Yiyi continues to produce pods to create a person without...

    • By Tressa 2021-12-22 08:01:05

      "Devil Flower in the Sky"-Is it a daughter-in-law? Just make it with just one kiss

      Why did the boy suddenly deny his mother? Why does the niece insist that the uncle was dropped? Why did people in the whole town find that their relatives around them became the most familiar strangers overnight? Is it mass hysterical hallucinations? Or conspiracy undermines in a calm day? What do the inexplicable super giant pods give birth to? Facing the entrapment...

    • By Adam 2021-12-22 08:01:05

      A very good movie, full of horror atmosphere

      To be honest, I don’t know where I saw the name of this movie. When I wanted to watch a horror movie and saw a recommendation, my website opened it without even thinking about it. I didn’t expect this movie to be so long ago, so long ago. I can make this kind of movie, and I really admire foreigners. The plot is quite bizarre. The Podman replicates everything about humans and then replaces the real person. The atmosphere is also terrifying to the back. When the actor finally escapes, I I...

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    • By Eldora 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Tawny invited us to see the film with...

    • By Napoleon 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      the first "ghost" movie on...

    • By Vita 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      It doesn't look good, it doesn't look good, no matter what historical status you have! In the beginning, the clones had 2 bodies, and later they only had 1 body when they fell asleep and would occupy the consciousness. . ....

    • By Angel 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Hmm, it's scary~ But there's one thing that doesn't make sense in logic. Humans want to escape from this bad luck and have to not sleep... How is this...

    • By Lottie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      At that time, science fiction films had a lot of political...

    Movie plot

    A small town on the outskirts of Los Angeles was invaded by aliens, and the locals were replaced one by one so that humans became emotionless, unconscious, and only rational walking corpses.
    The doctor Mills Bennell ( Kevin McCarthy ) was on a business trip to attend a medical conference, during which he received a call from the nurse, saying that the number of patients in his town was increasing rapidly, and Dr. Bennell had to rush...
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    Movie quotes

    • Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [cautiously] Who are you?

      Dr. Hill: I'm Dr. Hill, from the state mental hospita...

      Dr. Miles J. Bennell: I AM NOT INSANE!

      [guards grab him]

      Dr. Hill: Let him go!

      Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Listen, Doctor, now you must listen to me, you must understand me, I'm a doctor too, I am not insane! I am NOT insane!

    • Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [grabs Dr. Bassett] Doctor! Will you tell these fools I am NOT crazy? Make them listen to me while there's still time!

    • Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Well, it started, for me it started last Thursday. In response to an urgent message from my nurse I'd hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town.